With the return of Deal or No Deal and the debut of America's Toughest Jobs, NBC easily won Monday night against repeat competition (and ABC's viewer-less High School Musical: Get In The Picture) with an average of 7.75 million viewers (over CBS with 5.57) and a demo adults 18-49 rating/share of 2.3/5 (over CBS with 1.8/5).

Deal or No Deal's results were just a bit below its past season average of 11m+, but well below its regular season 18-49 rating of 3.4. It was drifting lower during last season, how it holds up in the next few weeks will be telling. America's Toughest Jobs debut with a demo rating of 2.6 wasn't bad, but for new shows it's all about the trend. Hold on for next week.

Nothing else of interest last night except the Democratic National Convention which was watched by relatively few on the broadcast networks from 10-11pm. We'll see the cable news data for last night likely later today and can compare.

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